About . . .

Pat Munts

Pat Munts spent her childhood in the forests and on the beaches of southern
Puget Sound where her father, a research chemist for a paper company,
taught her to be curious about everything. She honed her horticulture
skills at Oregon State University before moving to Spokane with her geologist
husband in 1976. For the past 30 years, she has been active in horticulture
and gardening as a landscape and nursery person, a freelance garden writer
for the Spokesman Review and Master Gardener Magazine,
a WSU Master Gardener and a WSU Extension program coordinator. She has
gardened on the same piece of property in the Spokane Valley for 28 years
and has dealt with weeds, bugs, cold, heat, drought and fire at one time
or another over the years.

Mark Turner

Mark Turner photographs extensively for books and magazines both
in gardens and in a wide range of native plant environments. He
combines a strong sense of photographic design, attention to detail,
curiosity about both native and garden plants, and more than 25 years
of gardening and exploring native plants in their environments. He
is the photographer and co-author of Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest,
published by Timber Press in 2006 and the winner of an American Horticultural
Society book award in 2007.